The Bluest Eye

The Bluest Eye, published in 1970, is the first novel written by Toni Morrison, winner of the 1993 Nobel Prize in Literature.....

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Kate Chopin's novel, a landmark work of early feminism, is seen as a pre-cursor to the works of American novelists such as William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. The upper-class Creole society of New Orleans and the Southern Louisiana coast at the end of the 19th century is brought to audio in a stirring performance by Academy Award-winning actress Kim Basinger.

Edna Pontellier, vacationing for the summer with her family on Grand Isle, has a great desire to find and live fully within her true self. However, her struggle to reconcile her unorthodox views on femininity and motherhood with the prevailing social attitudes of the turn-of-the-century South brings the story to a tragic conclusion. The Awakening's blend of realistic narrative, incisive social commentary, and psychological complexity is the first in a tradition that would culminate in the modern masterpieces of Flannery O'Connor, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams.

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If Kim Basinger wouldn't try so hard to keep up that sexy voice...I think I like her, it's not the voice itself that sounds awkward. She is constantly intonating as if whispering something nice into my ear...which is really not good for the book. It fits in certain moments and thats all. I have a feeling that only after a break while recording her voice sounds "normal" for a few sentences. It was quite unnerving in the beginning but I somehow managed to just make my peace with it. Still: I had to laugh out loud sometimes (not bad for the soul, bad when the protagonist is having mindful thoughts) as it is so strange when Kim loses all the little strength in her voice with the end of a long stretch of words. It screams: my sexy voice is famous! into my ear just too loud. But then: others might like it. Just be aware that even "chap...teeerr twelve" sounds like "I love you so much" voiced by a very desperate and very very gentle soul..or as some women know: someone who's trying to sound like a very very gentle soul :-) I don't need to speak about the book by Kate Chopin...it's a classic, of course it's worth being read.